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TESTEMONAIL: Right and Discordianism allows room for personal interpretation. You have your theories and I have mine. Unlike Christianity, Discordia allows room for ideas and opinions, and mine is well-informed and based on ancient philosophy and theology, so, my neo-Discordian friends, open your minds to my interpretation and I will open my mind to yours. That's fair enough, right? Just claiming to be discordian should mean that your mind is open and willing to learn and share ideas. You guys are fucking bashing me and your laughing at my theologies and my friends know what's up and are laughing at you and honestly this is my last shot at putting a label on my belief structure and your making me lose all hope of ever finding a ideological group I can relate to because you don't even know what the fuck I'm talking about and everything I have said is based on the founding principals of real Discordianism. Expand your mind.

...Stang tends to be more Discordian in his view of the norms than most SubGeniuses. Though most of his 'followers' seem to have embraced the SubGenius philosophy that he preaches, rather than the one that he tends to actively participate in).

Ratatosk

Stang doesn't practice what he preaches because he's not the kind of person he's preaching to.

Oh I agree... I think with Stang, he's got his Game and everyone (including TGGR) plays. He may appear tragically hip, but he (like RAW) seem to be making it through the game without having to do a lot of icky work that wasn't any fun. I wouldn't mind being that tragically hip come retirement....

Rat, a lot of people are throwing around the metaphor/parable of the Barstool Experiment in ways that, in some instances, are quite different from each other.

For me, I think Cram might have it right. While I'm no stranger to debates that spiral up and out of the realm of the practical into the fantastic, lately I've had little time for pretentious shits who think they have "the answer" to whatever problem there might be in this world, but would only be effective if the world were an entirely different place to begin with.

For example, I was recently in a debate with a guy who claimed everything wrong with society was the fault of the Federal Bank Reserve system. He claimed that the evils of the world would vanish if we would abolish it. He then went on about how he'd set up a new system based upon the freemarket, and meritocracy, etc.

When he was done, all I asked was, "so, how do you suggest to bring down a system that has it's roots deeply entwined with the very structure of our society, without making every other social institution collapse as well?"

Rat, a lot of people are throwing around the metaphor/parable of the Barstool Experiment in ways that, in some instances, are quite different from each other.

For me, I think Cram might have it right. While I'm no stranger to debates that spiral up and out of the realm of the practical into the fantastic, lately I've had little time for pretentious shits who think they have "the answer" to whatever problem there might be in this world, but would only be effective if the world were an entirely different place to begin with.

For example, I was recently in a debate with a guy who claimed everything wrong with society was the fault of the Federal Bank Reserve system. He claimed that the evils of the world would vanish if we would abolish it. He then went on about how he'd set up a new system based upon the freemarket, and meritocracy, etc.

When he was done, all I asked was, "so, how do you suggest to bring down a system that has it's roots deeply entwined with the very structure of our society, without making every other social institution collapse as well?"

Look, asshole: Your 'incomprehensible' act, your word-salad, your pinealism...It BORES ME. I've been incomprehensible for so long, I TEACH IT TO MBA CANDIDATES. So if you simply MUST talk about your pineal gland or happy children dancing in the wildflowers, go talk to Roger, because he digs that kind of shit

Look, asshole: Your 'incomprehensible' act, your word-salad, your pinealism...It BORES ME. I've been incomprehensible for so long, I TEACH IT TO MBA CANDIDATES. So if you simply MUST talk about your pineal gland or happy children dancing in the wildflowers, go talk to Roger, because he digs that kind of shit